evacuation flights, many evacuees sought alternative means of escape for the third party countries as i mentioned. how have the defense department working with state to ensure these individuals don t fall through the cracks with regards to resettlement? again, i d have to defer to state in terms of outlining what the resettlement processes are. in terms of direct activity from the department of defense, we don t have much. we re not a big part of that effort, the resettlement effort in third countries. thank you, mr. secretary. again, i want to thank all three of you for being here today and thank you for your service. thanks very much, senator kelly. senator hawley.
0 to work, to come out of bagram. no way to keep bagram and go to effective zero in well, thinking of what we have may have gained or may have lost as we leave. we think about countering adversaries, so again, general mckenzie what is your assessment of the foreign influence in afghanistan, the wake of our - hosted what we called the conference. we all adversaries from filling the we talk about that region after the fall of afghanistan. generally what they want is they want assurance. they want to continue to have ties with the united states because they want alternatives to russia and they want alternatives to china. unfortunately because of the geographic location, they ll always have to deal with russia and china. our partners in the region want a message that the united states is not going to turn our back on them even though we left afghanistan. we had a productive conference based on those themes. i couldn t agree more. it makes us more vulnerable if we allow anybody else t